Consignment of 3 million Sputnik V vaccines lands at Hyderabad airport
June 01, 2021
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At 56.5 MT, this is the biggest tranche of Sputnik V vaccines to arrive in the city
A huge consignment of 30 lakh (3 million) doses of Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V landed at the Hyderabad airport on a chartered freighter RU-9450 in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Weighing 56.5 MT, this is the biggest tranche of Sputnik V vaccines to arrive here, and the consignment includes substances for filling and packaging.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted: “Hyderabad Customs expeditiously cleared the 3rd and the largest shipment of 56.6 MT of Sputnik Vaccines.”
While Dr Reddy’s Labs, which has an exclusive tie-up for supplies with RIDF, is yet to comment on the development, Sputnik V tweeted: “A new batch of #SputnikV vaccine arrived in India to help the country fight #COVID19 pandemic. More cities in #India wil be joining Sputnik V vaccination campaign.”
Sputnik V in India: Apollo hospitals to roll out Russian COVID vaccine from second week of June - "In June, we will do a million every week and double that in July. We are on track to complete 20 million jabs by September this year," Apollo said.
Apollo Hospitals Group , which took three weeks to cross the milestone, said in June it will do 10 lakh vaccinations every week and double that in July.
Apollo Group of Hospitals has announced that it will start administering the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, across its hospitals in India from the second week of June, at an estimated price of Rs 1,195 per dose. We will be charging Rs 995 for the vaccine and Rs 200 would be administration charges, an official of the Apollo Group said. On Thursday, Apollo Hospitals said they will start administering Sputnik V from the second week of June. In a statement, Executive Vice-chairperson Shobana Kamineni of the Apollo Group of Hospitals said that the group has completed administering one million vaccine doses across 80 locations in India, and will prioritise frontline workers, high-risk population, and corporate employees.
COVID-19: Sputnik V vaccine to be rolled out at Rs 1,195 in Apollo hospitals from June - On Thursday, Apollo Hospitals said they will start administering Sputnik V from the second week of June.